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Saturday, May 02, 2009
8:00:00 AM - 10:00:00 AM |
| Session Number: 2090 |
| FOPO Child Health Research Working GroupChild Health Research Funding and Policy: The Imperatives and the Investments That America Needs to Make for a Healthier World |
| PAS Special Symposium |
| Baltimore Convention Center ~ 317 |
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| Target Audience: Academic pediatricians, scientists from a variety of backgrounds (including basic, translational, and clinical science), policy makers, and national leaders. |
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| Objectives:
- Know about past funding of child health research and future challenges
- Appreciate the impact of research done early in life and its potential to improve the health of adults
- Understand the rationale for the creation of Pediatric Research Consortia |
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| Chairs: William Hay, Jr., University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO and Mark Schleiss, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The child health research community continues to be underfunded from a national perspective as compared to research conducted in adults. Only 9% of the total dollars of research funding are directed towards child health while children and their diseases represent 26% of the population. This Topic Symposium is a forum for discussion of the past and future states of child health research funding, the rationale for directing public funds towards the understanding of child health and disease, and new programs and paradigms for promoting child health research. Ultimately the content of this Topic Symposium will provide the background for a manuscript to be submitted to more widespread dissemination. |
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William W. Hay
University of Colorado Denver, Aurora, CO |
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Mark R. Schleiss
University of Minnesota Medical School, Minneapolis, MN |
| 8:00 AM - |
Child Health Research Funding–Alarming Trends of the Past Decade
Daniel Gitterman
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC |
| 8:30 AM - |
The Future of Child Health Research Funding–The Audacity of Hope
Duane Alexander
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes Health, Bethesda, MD |
| 9:00 AM - |
Investment in Child Health Research – Smart Money, Well Spent: How Research in Early Life Disorders Pays Huge Dividends in Adult Health
George J. Dover
Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD |
| 9:30 AM - |
New Paradigms in Child Health Research Funding – The Rationale for the Pediatric Research Consortia Bill
David A. Williams
Children's Hospital Boston, MA |
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| Program developed by the Federation of Pediatric Organizations and Pediatric Academic Societies |
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